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A WORD is perhaps necessary in explanation of the term lipoids. These are substances, contained in the outer protoplasmic layer of all cells, which resemble the fats in being soluble in organic solvents. They appear to be essential Constituents, and are specially abundant in that tissue which pre-eminently manifests “vital properties,” namely, the nervous tissues. The majority of them, though by no means all, contain both phosphorus and nitrogen. Very little is as yet known as to their constitution and properties.
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Lipoids and Nutrition . Nature 88, 157 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088157a0
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